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Aidan Donnelly

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475 total appearances

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

It's three times the free float and blah, blah, blah.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

It's about 200 billion market cap that this is going to have in the index.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So there'll be a bit more buyers than that.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

The big index is...

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

the S&P 500, right?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Now, S&P have said that they are not going to put it in for at least a year, right?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

And there was an awful lot of pressure from very serious players on Wall Street to try arm twist and get them to change the rules.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

And they've said, no, the rules are the rules.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Oh, and by the way,

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

You know, if it's still unprofitable in a year's time, it won't be going in in a year either because they have a profitability rule in there as well.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Right.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So that's the big daddy of the index buyers.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So they're sitting on the sidelines for a year.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So the question is.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

If 60% of them is ETF money and they can't get involved in the IPO, you want to get 40%, which is active.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

How many of them are going to get involved?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

And again, the quantum of money may not be massive in terms of 75 billion being raised.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So that's why we're seeing more and more people talking about it in retail investor formats, because retail investors, you know, will be facilitated to a certain extent.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

You know, Musk has said, oh, he wants retail investors.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

And, you know...